Crank That Tokyo Diva

BY NADIA PFLAUM

Since KPRS 103.3 is gonna be playing “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” the steel-drum-tinged anthem from Atlanta, on heavy rotation from now until the end of time (and it’s actually a nice break from the Timbaland tracks they wore out all summer), you might as well learn the dance that all the kids are doing.

There’s something sweet about songs that give directions on their accompanying dance, like we’re tapping into that Chubby Checker “Do the Twist”-era when teenagers wore poodle skirts and sipped milkshakes and … there were separate drinking fountains. On second thought, fuck the early ’60s.

In the South they might be all about Soulja Boy, but up in New York City, a girl named Tokyo Diva and her crew are showing us how the ’80s babies do it on her block — in neon leggings, big-print t-shirts and thick, gold dookie rope chains. The song’s about Tokyo Diva greasing up her face and taking out her rollers to go fight a girl. …